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Family Practice 2008 25(5):319-320; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmn075
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Editorial

Patient satisfaction with medication: a challenge for primary health care

C Lionis and A Philalithis

Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, PO Box 2208, Heraklion 71 003, Crete, Greece

Correspondence to C. Lionis; Email: lionis@med.uoc.gr

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Good prescribing is a key issue in modern health-care systems: physicians and patients are concerned about outcomes, albeit from different perspectives, funding agencies are worried about costs and benefits and the pharmaceutical industry is interested in sales and customer satisfaction. Of all these, most research has gone into patient compliance and satisfaction. The theoretical basis of much of this research in recent literature is found in the theory of planned behaviour, an extension of the Theory of Reasoned Action that attempts to explain behaviour . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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